Economic importance of the Flemish maritime ports: Report 2002

More documents

Recommendations

Info

4.3.3 Salaried employmentTABLE 27 SUMMARY OF THE CHANGES IN EMPLOYMENT AT OSTEND FROM 1995 TO 2002(FTE)Sectors(direct effects)1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Relativeshare in2002(in p.c.)Changefrom 1995to 2002(in p.c.)Annualaveragechange(in p.c.)Maritime clusterShipping agents andforwarders .................. 85 67 66 78 80 74 31 45 1.1 - 47.0 - 8.7Cargo handlers........... 15 10 40 45 55 76 68 75 1.8 387.3 25.4Shipping companies... 1,387 1,309 767 501 390 0 10 11 0.3 - 99.2 - 50.1Other services ............ 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0.0 - -Fishing........................ 577 545 452 454 448 364 391 250 6.1 - 56.7 - 11.3Shipbuilding andrepair .......................... 112 69 59 61 79 76 86 79 1.9 - 29.3 - 4.8Other industries.......... 161 155 402 324 281 172 227 187 4.6 15.9 2.1Public sector............... 475 358 355 232 259 237 212 212 5.2 - 55.4 - 10.9Total maritime........... 2,813 2,513 2,141 1,694 1,594 1,000 1,026 860 21.0 - 69.4 - 15.6Non-maritime clusterTotal wholesale trade . 452 341 389 365 373 411 402 367 9.0 - 18.8 - 2.9Energy ........................ 0 0 0 8 5 5 4 4 0.1 - -Oil industry ................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 - -Chemicals................... 338 465 437 442 464 369 307 408 10.0 20.6 2.7Car manufacturing...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 - -Electronics.................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 - -Metal-working industry 396 561 649 738 882 948 1,117 1,150 28.1 190.5 16.5Food industry.............. 15 15 10 12 48 11 56 62 1.5 315.3 22.6Other industries.......... 358 364 341 313 205 195 194 134 3.3 - 62.6 - 13.1Total industry.............. 1,107 1,405 1,437 1,513 1,604 1,529 1,679 1,758 42.9 58.8 6.8Other services ............ 188 179 104 132 153 162 168 238 5.8 26.7 3.4Other industries.......... 0 0 0 30 33 34 36 36 0.9 - -Public sector............... 434 438 557 526 527 569 533 540 13.2 24.4 3.2Total logistics services 622 617 661 688 713 765 736 814 19.9 30.9 3.9Road transport............ 157 140 142 169 160 163 231 226 5.5 43.7 5.3Other services ............ 35 32 31 38 13 18 69 70 1.7 100.0 10.4Total transport ............ 192 172 173 207 173 181 300 296 7.2 54.0 6.4Total non-maritime... 2,373 2,535 2,660 2,773 2,863 2,886 3,117 3,235 79.0 36.3 4.5Direct effects............. 5,186 5,048 4,801 4,467 4,457 3,886 4,143 4,095 100.0 - 21.0 - 3.3Allocation (p.m.) ......... 277 201 112 178 161 141 162 135 - - 51.2 - 9.7Source: NBB.48 NBB WORKING PAPER No.56 - JUNE 2004
TABLE 27 SUMMARY OF THE CHANGES IN EMPLOYMENT AT OSTEND FROM 1995 TO 2002(continued)(FTE)Sectors(indirect effects 51 )1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Relativeshare in2002(in p.c.)Changefrom 1995to 2002(in p.c.)Annualaveragechange(in p.c.)Total maritime .............. 3,587 3,857 3,792 3,277 2,563 544 654 539 17.6 - 85.0 - 23.7Total non-maritime ...... 1,678 1,900 1,796 1,985 2,229 2,203 2,389 2,526 82.4 50.5 6.0Indirect effects ............. 5,266 5,756 5,588 5,262 4,792 2,747 3,043 3,065 100.0 - 41.8 - 7.4Total employment ........ 10,451 10,804 10,389 9,729 9,249 6,633 7,186 7,159 - - 31.5 - 5.3Source: NBB.General changesIn contrast to the three other ports, total employment (direct, including allocation, and indirect) at the port ofOstend fell markedly over the period 1995 - 2002, by 31.5 p.c., which corresponds to - 5.3 p.c. per annum onaverage. This change is attributable, above all, to the sharp fall in subcontracting, since indirect employmentcontracted by 41.8 p.c. over this period, or by - 7.4 p.c. per annum on average. The decrease in directemployment is not as sharp but is nevertheless quite pronounced at - 21.0 p.c., which corresponds to - 3.3 p.c.per annum on average. The employment created, especially in the highly productive sector of the chemicals, wasnot sufficient to reverse this trend. 2000 will remain a bad year in terms of employment: 12.8 p.c. of direct jobs,42.7 p.c. of indirect jobs and, as a result, 28.3 p.c. of total employment was lost. This significant fall can beexplained largely by the cessation of trading by RMT and by the restructuring work carried out in other sectorssuch as chemicals. As shown in greater detail below, employment here has fallen constantly, as has investment,which has been virtually zero for Ostend-based shipping companies since 1996. The indirect employment relatedto this sector is very substantial and the collapse that can be seen in table 27 is the result of RMT ceasing trading,among other things. Since most of the other shipping companies are foreign, the loss of this company has causedOstend's share in the allocation of the indirect effects related to this sector to fall very sharply. However, thesector generates a lot of indirect jobs. Although Ostend no longer contributes to this total, the impact on thesupply chain is immediate, assuming that the indirect effects are limited to the national economy (cf. hypothesis 2of annex 1 - point 5.2.3).The slight upturn in 2001 (+ 6.6 p.c. direct jobs, + 10.8 p.c. indirect jobs and + 8.3 p.c. total jobs) was not enoughto offset these losses. In 2002, another fall in direct employment (- 1.2 p.c.), barely offset by the slight rise inindirect employment (+ 0.7 p.c.), was noted. Overall, this represented a total drop of 0.4 p.c. for all of thecompanies associated with the port of Ostend.For subcontracting, the ratio between indirect and direct employment peaked at 117.8 p.c. in 1998. It thendropped somewhat in 1999, before falling below 75 p.c. in 2000. In 2002, this ratio amounted to 74.8 p.c. Therelative fall in indirect employment at the port of Ostend is due principally to the fall in employment at the shippingcompanies and in fishing, sectors that are heavily dependent on external labour.Changes by cluster in direct effectsEven though employment has been declining since 1998, it fell most sharply in 2000 (- 12.8 p.c., see table 27),with the liquidation of RMT and the loss of its 390 jobs. With the disappearance of this company's directemployment, together with the labour related to its operations, the number of jobs in the maritime cluster shrankby 37,3 p.c. The industry segment was also dragged down by this fall, although to a lesser degree (- 4.7 p.c.).After picking up slightly in 2001 (+ 6.6 p.c.), direct employment fell once again the following year, which also sawa considerable decrease in VA at Ostend. In 2002, there was a substantial decline in employment in the maritimecluster (- 16.2 p.c.) and in the wholesale trade (- 8.7 p.c.). On the other hand, the number of people employed inindustry and in logistics services grew by 4.7 p.c. and 10.6 p.c. respectively.51The breakdown of the indirect effects by sector for the period 1995 - 1999 can be found in annex 5 (table 54).NBB WORKING PAPER No. 56 - JUNE 2004 49
Page 3: AbstractThis paper provides an exte
Page 8 and 9: conditions than those in Europe in
Page 10 and 11: 1 INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTIn 2002 the
Page 12 and 13: average 41.1 p.c. of the traffic in
Page 14 and 15: The study goes on to describe some
Page 16 and 17: 3.1.2 Changes in indirect VAAs poin
Page 18 and 19: 3.3 Comparison of change in value a
Page 20 and 21: 3.5.1 Contract type and human resou
Page 22 and 23: GRAPH 4TOTAL NUMBER OF STAFF EMPLOY
Page 24 and 25: as a whole (0.8 p.c. in 2002). Desp
Page 26 and 27: • A slight decline in solvency wa
Page 28 and 29: 4.1.2 Value addedTABLE 7 SUMMARY OF
Page 30 and 31: • The car manufacturing rose by 4
Page 32 and 33: TABLE 9 SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN EMPLO
Page 34 and 35: TABLE 11 SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN INVE
Page 36 and 37: 4.1.5 Financial ratios (private com
Page 38 and 39: 4.2 Port of Ghent4.2.1 Significant
Page 40 and 41: TABLE 16 SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN VALU
Page 42 and 43: 4.2.3 Salaried employmentTABLE 18 S
Page 44 and 45: At the port of Ghent, the major cha
Page 46 and 47: investments was seen (+ 26.9 p.c.),
Page 48 and 49: Binnenvaart Bulk en Container Trans
Page 50 and 51: 4.3 Port of Ostend4.3.1 Significant
Page 52 and 53: TABLE 25 SUMMARY OF THE CHANGES IN
Page 56 and 57: Changes by sector in direct effects
Page 58 and 59: continued in 2002. Hence, investmen
Page 60 and 61: TABLE 32RATIOS BY SECTORSectorsRetu
Page 62 and 63: 4.4 Port of Zeebrugge4.4.1 Signific
Page 64 and 65: TABLE 34(continued)SUMMARY OF THE C
Page 66 and 67: 4.4.3 Salaried employmentTABLE 36 S
Page 68 and 69: • Following two good years for th
Page 70 and 71: 36.0 p.c. in industry and by 51.9 p
Page 72 and 73: By sectorTABLE 41RATIOS BY SECTORSe
Page 74 and 75: 5 SUMMARY OF THE MAIN RESULTS AND P
Page 76 and 77: 5.2 Prospects for the Flemish marit
Page 78 and 79: List of abbreviationsd.w.t.ESA 95EU
Page 80 and 81: TABLE 45CLUSTERSClustersNACEcodesDe
Page 82 and 83: 3.2 SelectionNon-maritime companies
Page 84 and 85: Comment: This is why there is a two
Page 86 and 87: o 3413 early retirement (*)o 3423 d
Page 88 and 89: 5.2 Estimation of indirect effects5
Page 90 and 91: means that this value grew by 4.0 p
Page 92 and 93: 86 NBB WORKING PAPER No.56 - JUNE 2
Page 94 and 95: - ten zuiden: het kanaal Plassendal
Page 96 and 97: Haven van Gent - Port de Gand - Por
Page 98 and 99: Haven van Zeebrugge - Port de Zeebr
Page 100 and 101: Suttak Nace-bel Cluster Sector Defi
Page 102 and 103: Suttak Nace-bel Cluster Sector Defi
Page 104 and 105:
ANNEX 4:LIST OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATI
Page 106 and 107:
1.2 EMPLOYMENTTABLE 50SUMMARY OF TH
Page 108 and 109:
Page 110 and 111:
Page 112 and 113:
Page 114 and 115:
TABLE 59BREAKDOWN OF FINDINGS BY CL
Page 116 and 117:
TABLE 63BREAKDOWN OF FINDINGS BY CL
Page 118 and 119:
Table 65(continued)SOCIAL BALANCE S
Page 120 and 121:
ANNEX 8: MARITIME TRAFFIC BY PORT I
Page 122 and 123:
ANNEX 9:GLOSSARY AND MARITIME TRANS
Page 124 and 125:
3 Intermodality 86In the transport
Page 126 and 127:
KB Weekly Bulletin no. 51/16 (May 1
Page 128 and 129:
NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM - WORKING
Page 130:
53. « Does Financial Liberalizatio
show all

Economic importance of the Flemish maritime ports: Report 2002

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?